Benefits Quote by Guy Standing

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“Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.”

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“The ethical and philosophical justifications for basic income – social justice, freedom and economic security – have been well established. They are embedded in…

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What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is…

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“While there are reasons to be sceptical about the predicted technological dystopia that has prompted many high-tech plutocrats to come out in support of…

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“Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority…

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A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented…

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Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go…

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People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

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“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support some variant…

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Globalisation began what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which wages in emerging market economies slowly converge with…

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“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies…

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“The first basic income pilot in a developing country was implemented in the small Namibian village of Otjivero-Omitara in 2008–9, covering about 1,000 people.40…

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“Leaving aside instrumental reasons for supporting a basic income, the thrill lies in the potential to advance full freedom and social justice, and the…

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